%{}% By OWEN MORRIS This is what happens when The Economist decides to come over to America and get a real feel for the country — or goes to a NASCAR race. In other words, good times! (More Intelligent Life) If there is a silver lining to the bad economy, maybe it’s that it could finally reign in restaurants’ outrageously,…
By C.J. JANOVY By the time I left my neighborhood at 7:50 a.m., a TV crew was already setting up outside Immanuel Lutheran Church at Westport Road and Bell, where poll workers still didn’t have correct books. Reportedly, four out of the five polling places in Kansas City’s 5th Ward didn’t have the right books, so election judges had to…
By JEN CHEN Last week, my colleague David Martin wrote this Plog entry (with pictoral evidence!) that confirmed Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s decision to cut back time at City Hall to work out of his Brookside house. Well, I wanted to see our new City Hall South. And what better time to do so than Halloween? After work on Friday, I…
By JASON HARPER Photos: SCOTT SPYCHALSKI I was in such a rush to get the excellent photos up from the Halloweenie show at KC Live that I didn’t really get a chance to throw in any copy up. So here goes. This isn’t really a concert review, because, unfortunately, it wasn’t much like a concert. If you’ve ever been down…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA I’m sorry, I just won’t eat anything that has the word turd embedded in it, although I almost did, once. That includes, so far, the delicacy known as turducken — although I have friends who say there’s nothing quite like a steaming, golden brown and fragrant … turducken. The idea of a partially de-boned turkey stuffed with…
By DAVID MARTIN The Doonesbury comic strip predicting a Barack Obama victory will appear in the FYI section of Wednesday’s Kansas City Star. Garry Trudeau, the strip’s author, trusts the polls, which show Obama with a comfortable lead heading into tomorrow’s election. Trudeau told the Los Angeles Times that newspapers face a greater risk their presses will break down than…
By ANDY VIHSTADT When Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s disagreed with Epic Records about the track selection on their sophomore LP, they managed to get what they wanted, sort of. Last month, the Indianapolis outfit simultaneously released Animal! and Not Animal, the latter being the label’s suggested version. The art-rock octet recently downsized itself to a trio for…
By JUSTIN KENDALL I read a lot of local blogs when I probably should be “working” or “reporting” or whatever my co-workers in this building do. I probably owe The Pitch about 2,187 stolen hours. Hey, I’m totally going to make it up. Starting today. So here’s Stealing Time, a daily digest of the best stories on Kansas City blogs….
First, from photographer Scott Spychalski, a pictorial of the Buzz Halloweenie Roast, featuring TV On the Radio, the Dirtbombs, Shiny Toy Guns and the Beautiful Bodies, at the Power & Light District. Click on photo for slide show. Then, from Lorna Perry, an all-over ramble that includes stops at the Record Bar, Power & Light, the Riot Room and a…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM I went to a Halloween party dressed in my street clothes, you guys. I am the cranky old man who needs to learn about the true meaning of Halloween, okay, shut up. Here are a few study questions: Was there a Heath Ledger Joker in attendance? Was his costume obviously purchased at a costume shop, rather…
By OWEN MORRIS Some random news from over the weekend: — Less than a month after filing for bankruptcy, Mother Archway Cookies has declared it’s selling off all its assets and closing down for good. Mother Archway Cookies was the parent company of Archway Cookies, whose goods are currently sold in all major grocery stores in the area. This news…
The freaks came out to the Power & Light District on Halloween Night for a free show. It was totally freaky deaky!
By OWEN MORRIS The 15th anniversary is traditionally crystal but for The Roasterie, it’s the giving-away-coffee anniversary. I first reported this in Pitch Forks last week but it’s worth a reminder. The Roasterie celebrates its 15th anniversary of serving kick-ass coffee by offering it for free today, as in Monday, November 3, in the year of our Lord 2008 at…
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%{}% By OWEN MORRIS If you didn’t call it trick or treating what would you have called it? Do the British really call it “Help the Halloween?” (Irish KC) When beans attack! A visual and literary feast that is fortunately not an aromatic post. (General Blather) Here is something interesting and that halfway explains the British Isles and the Bible…
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